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- Leighanne Levensaler, Vice President, HCM Strategy
HR consulting firm Mercer recently released a study showing that employers plan to make changes to their talent programs as the economy emerges from the recession.
While the cost and resource savings of software-as-a-service (SaaS) roll-outs versus onsite software implementations are widely known, what’s often left out of the discussion is the benefits enterprise software users experience when moving from the traditional ERP software industry’s “upgrade” model to the SaaS industry’s “update” model.
Workday recently spoke with several leading analysts in the areas of enterprise software and HR technologies to learn their views on what′s in store for HR technology in 2011.
A poor economy forced many organizations to make the tough decision to lay off employees in the past few years, and even harder decisions about which ones to let go.
SaaS adoption is clearly accelerating. Forrester Research, in a recent survey of 1,007 enterprise software decision makers, found that more than 40% were using or planning to use SaaS, and 30% were interested in it.
SaaS has its skeptics, but experienced users praise this new approach to software delivery for lowering their IT costs and providing far more flexibility with global software rollouts.